A house church leader from Anhui Province sentenced to 18 months after the police apprehend him while on the run to evade arrest. The name of a house church leader, Wang Hui (pseudonym), from Bozhou city, Anhui Province, was put on the list of wanted persons after the...
Thirty officers burst into a house church and arrested 29 believers, later detaining some of them for up to ten days. At about 8 p.m. on March 30, 2018, nearly 30 heavily armed officers from the Pizhou Public Security Bureau in Jiangsu Province and a local police...
Two sisters who were co-workers in a house church in Liaocheng city, Shandong, faced cruel persecution by the Chinese Communist authorities since 2008. Dong Lingyun and her younger sister Dong Lingxia (pseudonyms) have been arrested and imprisoned multiple time for...
A house church leader from Shanxi was arrested in July 2017 and imprisoned for six months; 70 members of the same church were questioned after his arrest. According to an inside source, on July 31, 2017, officers from a local police station apprehended a house church...
Four co-workers of a house church in Bin county of Harbin city were apprehended by the police during a church meeting; they were later sentenced to long prison terms. In May 2014, the leader of the house church, Cao Hong (pseudonym), and three co-workers were...
Repeatedly arrested and tortured, a 71-year-old house church leader is still harassed by the police. Liu Yunjin (pseudonym) is the leader of a house church in Daye city, Hubei. She has been arrested by the police three times in the past, tortured, and is currently...
Xin Zhuo was a Christian from a house church in Wudan town of Ongnuid Banner in Chifeng city, Inner Mongolia. He became a believer in 1998 and attracted the attention of the local police because of his frequent preaching. He was arrested but continued to preach,...
Bitter Winter has learned that house church Christian Qiao Gang (pseudonym) of Shangqiu City, Henan, was summoned to a local police station on May 4 of 2018, and has not been heard from since. When Qiao’s family inquired into the matter, they were told that he had...
On June 6, 2018, four Christians from a house Church in the city of Yicheng, Hubei Province were arrested by police and had their homes searched. To date, one of them is still being held illegally. On June 6 at a little past 2 p.m., 54-year-old Christian Sun Zhen...
Over a hundred Christians from a charismatic house church in Inner Mongolia were beaten by the local armed police while they were in a gathering in July 2017. One elderly believer approaching eighty fainted after being tased, four others were forcibly arrested. Two of...